re: Is MLB becoming irrelevant in today's "Media culture"?

the problem with baseball is that when people are most available to give it there attention and they aren't competing with football and basketball, its the beginning of the season and no one cares about the first 100 games of the season b/c the season is too long.

By the time baseball gets interesting it's football season, and it just can't compete with that.
The only people that care about baseball are the local fans of teams that are doing well, and sometimes they don't even care, Tampa Bay. Ratings prove this point very easily.
I would bet the ratings for a Saints-Packers game at 12 on Sunday draw better ratings than a Yankees Red Sox game on a night without a football game, despite the millions of people difference between the cities.

other reasons i dont' watch it even though i did all the time growing up in the 90's:
1. too many times i see lack of effort. Ortiz makes no attempt to get to first base unless he gets a sure fire base hit or home run.
2. too many non-english speaking players, making no attempts to learn english
3. games are too long
4. season is too long
5. because of 4, when a player farts, it strains their abdomen so they sit out 2 weeks.
6. too many stupid unwritten rules that make players look like douche bags.
7. too many fat asses playing
8. The fact that they treat the two leagues as two separate leagues, the dh.